We have just collected about 40 kg of green tomatoes from our greenhouse. They had become too heavy for the plants to hold them.
what can we do with them to make them go red.
2006-08-04 04:11:53 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Home & Garden ➔ Other - Home & Garden
Keep them in the dark, in a cool, dry place, and most should pink up soon ( tomatoes ripen in the dark, not in the sunshine!) You could sell them as green tomatoes; folks around the south LOVE fried green tomatoes! (I don't know where you are from, but it is a popular dish) Or you could make green-tomato chow chow to use some up. Good luck, and happy gardening!
2006-08-04 04:18:24 · answer #1 · answered by themom 6 · 15⤊ 3⤋
Get some red tomatoes, or ripening tomatoes, and spread them evenly through the green tomatoes on a window ledge or on wooden trays. They will also ripen when stored in the dark. The gasses given off by the red tomatoes start the ripening process in the green tomatoes. Alternatively get a good chutney recipe book!
2006-08-04 04:41:40 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Set them aside in a window or just in a place that will get some good air circulation and they will turn eventually. Otherwise, if you want you can make some green tomato pies, or fried green tomatoes too. Any of the three are very good.
2006-08-04 04:16:42 · answer #3 · answered by ramall1to 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Put them in a brown paper bag close, leave inside for a day or 2 however long it takes till they turn red! Or why dont you just make fried green tomatoes! yummmy!
2006-08-04 04:15:41 · answer #4 · answered by COOKIE 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have had success with ripening tomato's in the window. You do have to turn them daily and be careful of what you set them on due to their being acidic.
Although I always have to fry acouple of green ones!☺
2006-08-04 04:16:50 · answer #5 · answered by me 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Brace up your plants.....thats why they call them tomato cages. The only thing to do after picking is to set out and let them ripen.
2006-08-04 04:21:02 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have you ever tried slicing the green ones, rolling them in flour and frying them in oil. Very good. If you want them to turn red sit them out in the sun.
2006-08-04 04:15:30 · answer #7 · answered by Ha Ha Charade You Are................... 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Leave them out in a warm room, eg a conservetary. And place them next to the window and leave for a while but check on them everyday.
2006-08-04 04:16:54 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can put them on a sunny window sill, or you can put them in a drawer with a ripe tomato. Dont ask me why but this works.
2006-08-04 05:47:13 · answer #9 · answered by Sunshine 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Put them in the window but don't let the get too hot. Next time just support the plant and let them turn on the vine! :-)
2006-08-04 04:20:43 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋